{"id":939875,"date":"2026-10-25T01:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939875\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T01:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T01:28:13","slug":"meet-tennis-star-monica-seles-billionaire-partner-with-a-32-year-age-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/939875\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet tennis star Monica Seles’ billionaire partner with a 32-year age gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former tennis <\/a>star and nine-time Grand Slam winner Monica Seles, 52, retired in 2008 at the age of 38.<\/p>\n

After her retirement, she had more time to enjoy the newfound flexibility with her schedule, which positively affected her personal life, and after leaving the court, she met her now-partner Tom Golisano, 84 \u2014 and the rest was history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Learn all about who Tom is and more about their special bond below.<\/p>\n

Who is Tom Golisano?
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Tom is the founder of the human resources company Paychex, Inc., launched it in 1971.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The brand provides an all-in-one systems that helps other companies handle payroll, insurance, and benefits for employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fun fact: He started the successful business with $3,000.<\/p>\n

He is also an investor, financially supporting a plethora of\u00a0other businesses over the years including Kodak, SafeSite, Zoom Tan.<\/p>\n

Tom launched his philanthropy-based company, Golisano Foundation, in 1985, which provides grants to people with intellectual disabilities in places such as schools and hospitals. <\/p>\n

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The businessman is also\u00a0the author of Built, Not Born, as well as The Italian Kid Did It!<\/p>\n

In 1991, he founded the Independence Party of New York and ran for New York\u00a0Governor in 1994, 1998 and 2002.<\/p>\n

Tom previously owned two sports teams: the Buffalo Sabres, part of the National Hockey League, and the National Lacrosse League’s Buffalo Bandits. <\/p>\n

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On top of that, he also owned fiber internet provider Greenlight Networks,\u00a0from 2019 to 2022, in\u00a0upstate New York.<\/p>\n

According to Forbes, Tom has a whopping net worth of $6.3 billion.<\/p>\n

Tom was previously married three times, and he welcomed children Steven and Cynthia into the world with first wife Gloria Austin, to whom he was married from 1961 to 1977. <\/p>\n

About Tom Golisano and Monica Seles’ relationship
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The duo met in 2009 and sparks flew between the two. They got engaged in 2014.<\/p>\n

The pair are both very passionate about philanthropy. Tom\u00a0has pledged an impressive $360 million in funds across 82\u00a0organizations.<\/p>\n

The grants he has provided range from $250,000 to $20 million, giving tremendous support to those in need. <\/p>\n

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Monica is a huge animal rights activist, and 23 of those 82 non-profits are focused on animal welfare.<\/p>\n

Tom also has a separate arm of his foundation called Bailey and Friends that specifically focuses on funds for animals.<\/p>\n

The duo live a private life; Tom doesn’t have a personal Instagram account, and Monica doesn’t post about their relationship online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former tennis star and nine-time Grand Slam winner Monica Seles, 52, retired in 2008 at the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":939876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,27101,70241,85,747,2489,30329],"class_list":["post-939875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrity-families","tag-celebrity-relationships","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}